SSIMWAVE bows video quality optimiser
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Michelle Clancy
| 31 July 2019

SSIMWAVE has debuted its VOD Monitor Production cloud-based tool, a quality-optimiser said to be designed for video assets being delivered across complex delivery chains in high volumes.


SSIMPLUS VOD Production is a viewer-centric technology that allows video businesses – streaming services, MVPDs and content studios – to tune video quality for their exact needs and audiences, the company said.

Features include the ability to optimise data rates to fit CDN budgets; evaluate tech stack or vendor operations at any part of the workflow; ensure Service Level Agreement (SLAs) compliance; compare quality across different distribution chains; and optimise the utilisation of network resources.

The SSIMPLUS algorithm is designed to give a Quality of Experience (QoE) 0-100 Subscriber Score based on software that mimics the human visual system. VOD supply chain managers can use the score to quickly set quality thresholds at multiple points in the delivery system. Based on these thresholds, the tool divides assets into Pass/Fail buckets; assets that Pass proceed down the delivery chain to the viewer while Fails can be fixed using the SSIMPLUS VOD Inspector tool.

“The explosion of new content sources, the availability of new devices and the need to connect the two have multiplied the complexity of the streaming ecosystem,” said Abdul Rehman, co-founder and CEO of SSIMWAVE. “Our mission is to give the industry the objective metrics and tools needed to navigate that landscape and deliver video quality that satisfies viewers and increases ROI.”